More Fun Kitty

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Happy August, everyone! Aimee here. Who loves a good summer party?! This kitty sure does.

This Party Cat stamp is the star of the show for this card. Paired with the More Fun sentiment stamp, this card is the perfect thing to send to that friend who is the Life of the Party. Follow along with the photo tutorial to see how I made it:

Whether you're a cat person or a dog person, there are loads of great stamps available on the Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda websites. We invite you to submit your Dog or Cat creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for this month's August Challenge. Happy Stamping!

Not today thank you

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Goodmorning all Cathy here with a bookmark for you.

Stamps Used:

brush strokes

pieces of calligraphy 

small happy cat

I started out by making a bookmark and rounding the edges, I then stamped small happy cat on the bottom of the bookmark. I colored him in with copic markers.  Next, I stamped a stamp from each pieces of calligraphy and brush strokes in a gray ink. I layered it on black cardstock and added a saying.

You can join the cat or dog challenge.

Peace, Love and Harmony

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog and Dictionary Words Artist Trading Cards.  ATC's, little canvasses of joy, and with Pokey Dog involved you just have to smile don't you!!

 So, we have Lost Coast Designs Peace, Love and Harmony.  I used three different colour inks on my three white ATC's.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Dictionary Words and then did a little off block stamping with a stamp from Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy set.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog on three different patterned paper scraps, fussy cut them and then added them to the ATC's.

Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

 

 

#200 Cats and Dogs challenge.

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Hello dear blog visitors!

Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda Stamps is running a fun challenge.

Cats and dogs! 

Since you don't necessarily have to use the LCD or CV stamps, 

you can still participate and have a chance to win.

Read the rules please.

Now for the explanation of this card.

I used:

CV White cat.

CV daisies in my hair.

LCD Flowers in 3 sizes.

The stencil I used is from Studio Light, Floral pattern.

The ink is Distress Oxide, Picked raspberry and Wilted violet.

And versafine onyx black.

A little flower punch for the little daisies.

Color pencils or markers.

I inked up the stencil and sprayed with water, 

than printed it on de upperpart of the paper.

ain the bottem part I stamped the words.

I made the bottom part with the stencil and an ink blender.

Stamped a lot of daissies and cut them out.

Colored the white cat and glued it on.

Did the same with the daisies.

Punched the little daissies and glued them on stencil patern.

Mat with a black background.

Dont forget the little daissies on the white cats head.

So we would love to see your cats and dogs in the challenge.

So join and maybe you will be the next winner.

CHALLENGE #200 CATS AND DOGS - MID-MONTH REMINDER

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

It's time for our mid-month blast of inspiration for the Cats and Dogs Challenge.
Our challenges are now monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st every month, with chances to win Lost Coast dollars.   You can use stamps from any company.  Please read the rules, and we do need at least 20 entries to award the prize.

CHALLENGE #200

CATS AND DOGS

You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

Please read the updated Challenge Rules to ensure your entries qualify to win this month's prize!

You are welcome to play in our Challenges using rubber stamp images from any company but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps...we love it when you do...then you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  All winners get our snazzy Challenge Winner's Badge to proudly display on their blogs!

If you don't have a blog then no prob, you can still play in our challenges by sharing your projects from public photo sharing sites which includes our Facebook Company Pages for Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  Please include our Challenge info and the link back to our challenge in your photo's description!  As long as the privacy setting for your photo is public you're good to go.  See, it's so easy to join the fun!  FYI, you can't link up projects shared in closed Facebook groups! 

Here's some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog and Spiderwebs Background

  
 Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog

 

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Taco John with Carmen's Veranda 

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 23.59 PST on the 31st and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize so tell your friends. The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #200 - Cats and Dogs 

August 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, August 31st 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up but your don't need a blog to win.  See our RULES page for more info
 

 

Cats and Dogs: Two Cats

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here with a card for our Challenge Cats and Dogs! Because of my holiday,( and because I'm chaotic..) I had to choose an oldie, but I think it fits perfectly to this theme! :-)

Stamps used: Two Cats, Pieces of Calligraphy, Pieces of Architecture.

I coloured a big A4 card with Distress inks and water, cut a smaller card and stamped (black ink) and cut the cats out of it. I stamped the texts and fragment with yellow, blue and black ink onto the background and glued the cats onto a yellow cardstock mat and glued them onto the background with 3d foam tape. Why not try it yourself and participate!? :-)

Have a nice and creative day!

LiesbethXX

The Right Kind of Weird

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Hello Stamping friends, Aimee here! Here's a card I made for this month's Challenge: Cats & Dogs:

The bright colors, fun glitter and funny sentiment would be great for the pre-teen in your life! And since many of us consider ourselves Young At Heart, this card would likely be welcomed by anyone. I used the Yoga Cat 9, Silly Gnome, Brush Strokes and Right Kind of Weird stamps to put this together. Follow along with these photos to see how I made it:

This is a great Challenge for building up a card stash for the young people in your life. Who doesn't like getting some fun Snail Mail!?! Upload your stamped creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for your chance to win a prize. Entries due by the last day of the month. 

Cats and Dogs Challenge 200!

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here today to share my first project for our August Cats and Dogs Challenge #200! As a crazy cat lady, I collect cat stamps (and stencils and cutting dies and stickers ...). The The Happy Cat Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs is one of my favorites because this cat's expression just fills me with joy and makes me smile!

I stamped the The Happy Cat Rubber Stamp with Tuxedo Memento ink, fussy-cut it, colored it with blue grey Shinhan Touch Alcohol markers, and then edged it with a black marker.

I grabbed a piece of patterned paper that worked with the beatific zen-like Happy Cat and used pink dye ink to stencil a pawsome heart in the center of it.

The patterned paper was trimmed to 5 ¾" square and edged with a black marker,

"meow" washi tape was added to the lower right side of the stenciled patterned paper. Two ⅛" pieces of black and white striped washi tape were added above and below the "meows".

Black cardstock was cut with a "smile" cutting die, which was adhered to the upper left corner of the patterned paper card front as shown.

Adhere the patterned paper card front to a 6" square black card.

The fussy-cut cat was adhered as shown to finish the card.

If you love cats and/or dogs, you really ought to play along with this challenge for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h! I sure I hope to see your artwork!

Thanks for visiting today!

Kitty Pink

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with some inspiration for the Cats and Dogs challenge.  At the moment it seems team cat is in charge.  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda have a multitude of cat and dog stamps in all sorts of styles, so there is something for everyone.  Today I am using Carmen's Veranda Large Peekaboo Kitty and some Lost Coast Designs Pawprints. 

 

 I used a sketch from De Egel and lots of scraps in shades of pink.

I stamped the Happy Birthday using pink archival ink on shrink plastic and cut with a circle die.  Here's one shrunk and one not.

I stamped Peekaboo Kitty on a cream scrap, fussy cut and added her to the card.  A few Pawprints and done!!

Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

Be Happy

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Hi there !  Darlene here with my first make of the month with

the theme "Cats and Dogs"

Using this cute Tabby Cat stamp from Carmen Veranda

I had the perfect paper to put her on !!!

(oh those soulful eyes)

Added on the saying from the Party Words 

This little one looks so sad...

She was embossed on white cardstock and fussy cut out

just a bit of colour for her eyes and nose

using several layers of cardstock, some gold threads

and it is done. 

this would be a great card for someone going through a hard time

Hey - be sure to upload your make for the Dog and Cats month over

at our blog.  Maybe win some new stamps !!  just make sure you have

stamping on your make

Starship Friends

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Gail here today with a fun fold card I made for a friend using Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat and some Carmen's Veranda sentiments. 

Aren't those pussies adorable!!!!

 

 I winged it and scored a piece of 6" x 6" patterned paper to make my pop up thingy.

 

 I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat with a bit of maskery trickery on patterned panel, then on plain card, fussy cut and added the daring duo to their stamped selves.  I did some square die cutting for the layered sentiment panels and stamped Carmen's Veranda Best Friends on the front, then mounted it on the mechanism.  It pops out a bit from the card base,in a fun and floppy manner.

Lift the flap for a second endearment..... 

So, are you team Cat??  or team Dog????   
Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #200 - CATS AND DOGS

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

 

Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st every month, with chances to win Lost Coast dollars. We will be announcing winners on the 5th of the month, so do pop back and see who wowed the team and gets our snazzy blog badge and the coveted Lost Coast dollars.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #200

CATS AND DOGS

Oh, this is going to be so much fun!!!!  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

Please read the updated Challenge Rules to ensure your entries qualify to win this month's prize!

You are welcome to play in our Challenges using rubber stamp images from any company but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps...we love it when you do...then you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  All winners get our snazzy Challenge Winner's Badge to proudly display on their blogs!

If you don't have a blog then no prob, you can still play in our challenges by sharing your projects from public photo sharing sites which includes our Facebook Company Pages for Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  Please include our Challenge info and the link back to our challenge in your photo's description!  As long as the privacy setting for your photo is public you're good to go.  See, it's so easy to join the fun!  FYI, you can't link up projects shared in closed Facebook groups! 

Here's some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY

 
 Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Yoga Cat 5, Brush Strokes and Party Words

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Up Close and Personal, Daisy Flourish and Imagine Dictionary Words

   
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat, Pokey Dog, Brush Strokes, Pieces of Calligraphy and Party Words

 

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  Team cat??  Team Dog??  Or team both???
We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 23.59 PST on the 31st and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #200 - Cats and Dogs
August 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, August 31st 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up but your don't need a blog to win.  See our RULES page for more info